Quote from: Joe_Bauers on February 24, 2021, 02:04:04 AM

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Quote from: aso118b on February 03, 2021, 12:03:22 AM

I'm wondering how it was decided to convert YAC to POW only. I don't recall seeing a discussion here, in GitHub, or miners voting with their hashrate.

Quote from: Beave162 on February 01, 2021, 11:21:26 PM

YACoin Resurrection Hard Fork – Heliopolis

Agree. I was mining yac since the beginning. This is pretty decent currency, why spoil it? v1.0 client is unstable, crashes all the time. I propose staying at the old one for a longer time. No hard fork is needed. Why?

Rather than talk about... in the next 2 weeks, month, etc... blah blah blah... I am going to release something. I will take a note from Elon Musk who is way better at promotion and say...

Stay Tuned!

I will say, I'm spending 8+ hours a day working on getting something for the "old" client released ASAP.

This is NOT to say that I disagree in any way with the current Yacoin team's approach and changes, because I don't in any way. But yes, I agree people should be able to run the old protocol for sure if they wish.

Just a quick update, and a clarification.

First, to clarify as it seems there was a lot of confusion by the Yacoin team and perhaps some others, and assumptions here and there seem to overtake the simple act of asking a question Roll Eyes

I AM NOT WORKING ON A REPLACEMENT FOR YACOIN I am working on a fork of the original Yacoin protocol, similar to Bitcoin Cash or SPV.

Your Yacoin wallet and coins will be valid until the fork on this chain, and then it will become it's own thing. I encourage anyone that was looking forward to Heliopolis to continue to look forward to it, download, install, what have you. I have changed the network port on the coin I'm working on, so you'll be able to run both on the same machine if you wish.

As far as the update goes, I am likely NOT going to be finished before the Yacoin fork at 1900000. In fact, I may never release it unless I can fix the terrible design flaw that has plagued Yacoin since day one. That is, using the PoW hash for EVERYTHING. This, as you know makes the client use more and more resources to run and gets worse for every Nf change. It shouldn't take a coin 15 days to sync and a non mining client shouldn't run at a high CPU and Memory rate. That's the main reason Yacoin is not on any exchanges.

There are 2 options I see to fix this.

1) My solution, which I'm not entirely sure is even feasible is to REHASH the Yacoin blockchain. In theory I believe it will work as the underlying data is not changing, just switching the hash field in LevelDB from the ever increasing (in resources) Nf hash with the normal 256 hash. The proof of work will still work, just the hash will be sha256. The client will then be able to sync, from 0 in a few hours.

2) Figure out the best way to transfer all coins to a new block-chain that starts out using the correct 256(256,block) hashing for all but PoW which would still of course use Nfactor.

This, in my opinion, is the ONLY thing the Yacoin team should be working on. There is one of me and many of you, I'm sure you could devise a solution quicker than I can, but either way (in my opinion) it needs to be done.

I am also happy to have any help from programmers that are extremely familiar with databases, especially LevelDB.